ORLEN Going Green

The Polish energy giant ORLEN has been undergoing a major expansion and transformation. Semantic Visions has focused on and mapped ORLEN’s green agenda on the basis of media coverage in the English language.

ORLEN’s 2030 strategy outlines ambitious investment plans exceeding PLN 320 billion ($ 82bn), emphasizing its commitment to diversifying its energy footprint to include renewables and nuclear power. This article outlines the timeline of events documenting the fulfilment of this pledge.

ORLEN Green Transformation, Search results for ORLEN and Sustainability:

The above Semantic Visions Search graph depicts media coverage in English of ORLEN’s efforts in fulfilling its zero-carbon strategy between 2019 and 2024. Paradoxically, the peak so prominently noticeable refers to the highest count of articles (170) published on 23 AUG 2023 when Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe published its highly critical Dirty dozen report. 

The report’s title, “The Climate Greenwashing of 12 European Oil Companies”, revealed that a mere 0.3% of the combined 2022 energy production (of six global fossil fuel majors and six European oil and gas companies) came from renewable power. 

Facing such dispiriting figures, let us get some insight into how ORLEN has stepped up to the climate challenge and which concrete steps have been undertaken in this field so far: